Electric safety appliance.



PATENTED NOVr10, 1903 IKLENTSGHI. ELECTRIC SAFETY APPLIANCE.

APPLLGATION FILLED FEB. 20. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

NVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES Patented November 10, 1903.

LOUIS KLENTSOHI, OF RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK.

ELECTRIC SAFETY APPLIANCE.

' SEEGIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,888, dated November 10, 1903.

Application filed February 20, 1903 Serial No. 144,311. (No model.)

LZ'O aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS KLENTSCHI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond Hill, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Electric Safety Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

By means of this invention foreign matter, such as snow or the like, can be prevented from accumulating on a conductor or third rail, so that interruptions-as, for example, in the running of trains or trolley-cars-can be avoided, as also accidents by which the safety of trackmen or other persons might be endangered.

This invention is set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows an end elevation of an electric conductor or third rail with safety appliance open. Fig. 2 shows the conductor covered or inclosed. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 2.

In the drawings is shown a conductor 1, such as a third rail of an electrically-operated Vehicle or railway-train. The track or rails 2 are adapted for the running of the wheels 3, as usual. A guard or cover is shown at 13, which when closed will prevent the fall or accumulation of snow, sleet, or foreign matter or the formation of ice br coating on the third rail, by which the desired flow of electricity mightbe interfered with.

The cover or lid is shown normally closed; but means for opening the same at suitable intervals or periods will allow a passing car or train to have its motor vitalized as required.

The cover is shown as having its tail or part 12 linked at 8 to an arm or actuator 11, shown in form of a lever fulcrumed at 7. A spring 9 tends torestore or move the arm to normally close the cover when the parts are free. A sliding pin or pusher 5 when depressedwill move the arm 11 to actuate the link 8 and open the guard, and the rail being thus uncovered a shoe or trolley or other moving contact can reach to the third rail for taking electricity therefrom as required.

A practical construction is to have a set of pins 5-say about six to eight feet apartconnected to a continuous rail 4, and as wheel for pins 5, and suitable guides or boxes 6 may be secured to the cross-ties 14: at suitable points to receive and guide the pins.

This invention is readily applicable without requiring any change in the construction composed of wire wound with insulating material is light, flexible, and durable, and will form an efficient cover.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A guard or cover for a third-rail track, an actuating-arm lin ked. to the cover, a spring for the arm, an actuaiingpin for the arm, and a rail for actuating the pins and extended along the full length of the track-rail.

2. In combination, a guard or cover, an actuating-arm, a link connection between one end of said arm and one side of said cover, a spring connected to said arm for returning it to its inoperative position, means for pivotally connecting the other end of said arm, said arm further provided with a curvilinear portion, and a vertically-movable pin adapted to engage in said curvilinear portion of the arm and when operated downwardly adapted to operate said arm to open the saidcover, said arm adapted to be returned to its iuoper ative position by saidspring when said pin is released, said arm returning said pin to its inoperative position when the said arm is returned to its inoperative position by the action of said spring.

3. In combination, a guard or cover, an actuating-arm suitably connected to said cover and adapted when operated to open and close the cover, a vertically-movable pin adapted i In testimony whereof I have hereunto set when pressure is exerted thereon to engage I 'my hand in the presence of two subscribing 1o and operate said arm, causing thereby the Witnesses. opening of said cover and a spring oonneoted to said arm and adapted to return it to its LOUIS KLENTSOHI' inoperative position, said arm when return- Witnesses:

ing to its inoperative position adapted to re- W. C. HAUFF,

turn said pin to its normal position. CHAS. E. POENSGEN. 

